Worst Person: What’ll I Do?
So often when we see stories about women in their 30s who still haven’t figured out what to do with their lives, it takes...
Cursed: Silver Bullet
What’s there left to do with a werewolf movie? The Cursed opens locally this weekend, and while I applaud its efforts to do something...
Death on the Nile: Poirot Gets the Blues
Following up the success of his Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh has taken the same approach to Death on the Nile by...
Jockey: Last Go-Around
I’ve said it before: Great character actors deserve at least one starring vehicle in their careers. Clifton Collins Jr. is a great character actor....
Parallel Mothers: Baby Bumps
They didn’t screen Parallel Mothers for us critics here in time for awards season. Why, I can’t fathom. It’s not as if Pedro Almodóvar...
Two Movies on Netflix
The Alamo Drafthouse in Denton is opening two films this week that have been on Netflix for some weeks now, after playing briefly in...
Belle Tones
I know what social media is now. It’s a pink-haired girl singing a pop song while riding through cyberspace on the back of a...
Best Documentaries of 2021
Maybe this pandemic has encouraged more people to watch documentaries at home. What’s certain is that not enough of them have made it to...
Holding Out for A Hero
In the wake of Iran’s phony election of 2009 that re-installed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, the country cracked down on its filmmakers, so Abbas...
Macbeth: Toil and Trouble
And still I haven’t seen a convincing film version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood comes closest, and Scotland, PA comes a...
